IIT Day on Capitol Hill collection, 2008
Twenty-one foam core poster boards, containing texts, diagrams and images illustrating IIT's research contributions to important national interests. These poster boards served to anchor the talking points of IIT President John Anderson as he addressed various members of the Illinois Congressional delegation in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2008.
This poster board collection contains summary boards that broadly sketch an entire area of research activity. These are each matched with a series of follow-up boards that provide more information on the various projects and initiatives that were a part of that shared area of research.
The following list attempts to reconstruct the order of the poster boards as they might have been displayed for the Illinois Congressional delegation on April 29, 2008. The boards that have their titles given in capital letters are the summary boards, whereas the titles of the follow-up boards are not capitalized.
Poster boards for the Illinois Congressional delegation
- ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE STRATEGY:
- Provide reliable and affordable energy
- Improve energy efficiency
- Continue ongoing decarbonization path
- Minimize waste and pollutants
- CORE COMPETENCY RESEARCH AREAS
- Energy sources and conversion
- Energy storage, distribution and utilization
- Sustainable buildings
- Materials and energy conversation
- HOUSE OF THE FUTURE PROJECT
- Designed as “Living Laboratory”
- Focus of outreach program
- Project Concept
- Materials and Energy Conservation
- Tire Recycling
- Rubber Modification
- Energy Storage, Distribution, and Utilization
- Hybrid Electric Conversion Kits
- Hybrid Bus
- Hybrid HMMWVs [Humvee]
- IIT Collaborators
- SECURITY STRATEGY:
- Provide critical services
- Identify interdependencies
- Evaluate vulnerable
- Assess risks
- Goal: Minimize risk
- INTERDEPENDENCIES CORE COMPETENCY RESEARCH AREAS
- Biosensors
- Sensor Networks
- Agent-based Control
- Power Grid Security
- Wireless Communications
- Food Defense
- Biosensors
- IIT ChemArray BIOSENSOR
- Sensing Array Biochip
- Detection Principle
- Proteins and Bacteria
- Sensor Networks
- Data Generation
- Sensor Placement
- Simulations and predictions
- Detailed Analysis
- Power Grid Security
- Reliability
- Vulnerabilities
- Situational Awareness Tools
- Wireless Communications
- Fundamental Challenge
- Wireless Interference and Security
- Measured Spectrum Occupancy
- Food Defense
- National Center for Food Safety & Technology
- Effects of Processing
- Decontamination
- BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH STRATEGY:
- Multifaceted Approach to Disease:
- Prevention
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Cure
- Blindness
- Neural Disorders
- Cancer
- Epilepsy
- Asthma
- Alzheimer's
- Diabetes
- Wound Healing
- CORE COMPETENCY ON IIT CAMPUS:
- Pritzker Institute for Biomedical Science and Engineering
- IIT Research Institute
- Particle Technology and Crystallization Center
- IIT Research Institute (IITRI) Life Science Group
- Prostate Cancer Prevention
- Breast Cancer Prevention
- Oral Cancer Prevention
- Cancer Prevention by Natural Products
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering Research
- Controlling Intractable Epilepsy
- Vascular Eye Diseases (Blindness)
- Prosthetic Vision
- Engineering Center for Diabetes
- Bioartificial Pancreas
- Treatment of Complications
- Modeling and Education
- Medical Imaging Research Center
- Multiple-image Radiography (MIR)
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Imaging Neural Tracts
- Particle Technology and Crystallization
- Drug Development
- Drug Manufacturing
- Drug Delivery
- INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
- Teaching Computing Concepts (K-5)
- Research Experiences for Teachers
- Math & Science Education
- NATIONAL COALITION FOR MANUFACTURING INNOVATION
- Mission
- Advancement of Technical Expertise
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
- The Problem
- The Solution
Dates
- Creation: 2008
Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology (Organization)
Language of Materials
Records are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Research
Collection Size
21 Items
Biographical Note
On Tuesday, April 29, 2008, IIT President John Anderson hosted IIT Day on Capitol Hill in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. President Anderson and a team of IIT researchers highlighted several areas of IIT research for members of the Illinois congressional delegation, their staff members, and local alumni. The research themes of the event were Energy Sustainability, National Infrastructure for Safety and Security, Science, Engineering, Technology (SET) for Health, and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Education.
Provenance
Sent to the IIT Archives in 2012 by IIT Vice President for External Affairs David Baker.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Formerly 2012.030
Processor
Mindy C. Pugh, Assistant University Archivist, 11/14/2012
Creator
- Illinois Institute of Technology (Organization)
Part of the Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections Repository